[ON 세계] WHO approves’Korean production’ AstraZeneca, including over 65 years old

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The World Health Organization (WHO) has approved urgent use of the AstraZeneca vaccine.

It is the second urgent approval following the Pfizer vaccine at the end of last year, but the target is 18 years of age or older, with no other age restrictions.

[ON 세계] This is reporter Ahn Mi-yeon.

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The AstraZeneca vaccine, approved for emergency use by WHO, is produced in two versions, Korea and India.

【Insert】 Theward Ross Governor Yeosus / WHO Secretary General
“Today, the WHO put two AstraZeneca vaccines on Kovacx’s urgent use list. One of the approved vaccines is produced by SK Bio in Korea and the other is produced by Serum Research Institute in India.”

Earlier last week, the WHO Immunization Advisory Group recommended that the AstraZeneca vaccine be used by all age groups over the age of 18 and also in countries where the mutant virus was found.

The WHO explained that the AstraZeneca vaccine met the’essential’ criteria for safety, and that the vaccine’s efficacy outweighs the risk of not being vaccinated.

However, despite WHO approval, some countries, such as Korea and Germany, recommend vaccination only for those under the age of 65 due to uncertainties in the effectiveness of the vaccine, and Switzerland and South Africa withhold the approval itself.

On the other hand, Australia, starting next week’s vaccination, announced today that it has approved the AstraZeneca vaccine for older people.

The reason why controversy over vaccine efficacy continues, such as different countries deciding whether or not to receive vaccination for the elderly is due to the small number of elderly people participating in clinical trials.

The British Guard explains that the Pfizer vaccine included only 4% of Asians in clinical trials, and excluded those over 89 at all.

He stressed that the lack of sufficient clinical trials in some groups is inevitable, but that does not mean that the vaccine is not effective in the elderly.

With WHO’s approval for urgent use of AstraZeneca, it seems that the speed of vaccine distribution through’COVAX Facility’, an international project for joint purchase of a corona vaccine, is expected to accelerate.

AstraZeneca, which accounts for a significant portion of Kovacs’ vaccine supply, said in a statement shortly after WHO approval: “We hope to deliver more than 300 million doses of vaccine to 145 countries in the first half of this year.”

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Countries that go back and forth between cold and hot baths due to Corona 19.

Australia and New Zealand, which have been referred to as corona clean areas, are those places, and’blockade’ and’declaration of an end’ are repeated.

In Auckland, New Zealand, three confirmed cases of unknown path of infection have caused the city to be shut down again.

【Insert 】Adon, the Prime Minister of New Zealand
“From 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, February 14th, Auckland will enter a three-day blockade in three days. The rest of New Zealand will implement two-phase action over the same period.”

In particular, the confirmation is the first case of a British mutant virus infection in New Zealand, so authorities are more nervous.

In New South Wales, New Zealand’s neighboring country, when the outbreak in New South Wales, the most populous state, hit ‘0’ for a month, there are reports that’in fact, Corona 19 has ended’.

Victoria, on the other hand, entered a third blockade last week with reports of the British mutant virus.

【Insert 】Daniel Andrews / Prime Minister of Victoria
“This is not what the Victorian people wanted, but when we look back two weeks later, we can’t create a situation where we regret not making this decision now. It’s a step based on past experience and science.”

In a recent poll conducted by the Guardian, more than 70% of Australians said they agreed to block borders until the global corona19 pandemic has passed.

Even with repeated blockades, there were people who believed in the government and endured pain and sacrifice, so couldn’t they have won the title of’Exemplary Defense Forces’?

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This year, the phenomenon of’after the above-mentioned’ is appearing without fail.

Even in winter, the temperature in southern Texas of the United States, which is around 10 degrees Celsius, drops to -18 degrees Celsius, and a cold wave in 30 years has come.

The surge in power consumption caused power outages.

【Insert】 Matt Gelati / Texas resident
“The capital was cut off at 8:30 in the morning and the electricity went out. Millions of Houston residents were in the same situation.”

There is also a phenomenon of’post-division’ in Europe.

In Greece, heavy snow fell in 12 years as the temperature dropped by more than 20 degrees from the normal year, and it snowed for several days in Istanbul, Turkey, where the normal temperature was video.

Do you feel the severity of the’climate crisis’ as much as’Corona 19′?

Let’s take a look at Bill Gates’ interview with the BBC.

【Insert 】Bill Gates / Founder of Microsoft
“With great vaccines developed within a year, the corona19 pandemic will end. Compared to the climate crisis, it is very easy to solve the coronavirus.”

In the end, Bill Gates is saying that the’climate crisis’ is more difficult than’Corona 19′.

If the effort we put into the’climate crisis’ is less than the effort to overcome’Corona 19′, we may face another disaster.

Until now, it was Miyeon Ahn in the ON world.

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